Special Envoy to the Xarnaq Praetorium Sir Keir Marvik has asked the United Planets to strip the Imperial Jurgætium ambassador of immunity so charges can be pursued against him related to an alleged tech trafficking ring.
Sir Marvik is accusing Ambassador Magister DeVault of illegal possession of proprietary technology, United Planets Media reports. It is alleged that DeVault ordered subordinates to fraudulently intercept mind-transferral technology from the Orville Corporation, allowing for their subsequent illegal sale.
Private enquêteurs remote-scanned DeVault’s earthside chancery in September of this year, claiming quantum signature traces of 39 Gist-Transfer Psy-Truncheon Manifolds that were reported missing by Orville. The ambassador was tending to his affairs on Jurgætium at the time.
A simple majority of the UP General Assembly is needed to remove DeVault’s statutory immunity. Jurgætioid officials say the accusations regarding the trafficking ring are “completely bogus,” United Planets Media reported.
While no solid links have yet been established in Ambassador DeVault’s alleged tech dealing, active duty and retired officials have sold military matériel to interplanetary criminal groups in the past, including the Caponi Clench on Esotöb3magA-III and the Baltan Seijin on Planet R and Venus. The Orville Corporation was itself under threat of embargo last year for alleged arms trafficking but sanctions were dropped by UP Security Council Secretary G-Rod ibn Quirish.
Ambassador Marvik is a former Orville Think Tank director and denies any conflict of interest.
Legal and illegal tech transfer has long been a grave concern for the United Planets as well as earthside. Trafficking at the upper echelons of power can undermine the legitimacy of sovereign systems and their efforts to crack down on organised crime’s effect on tech imbalances.
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